I think I made this up: In order to get to where you're going, you gotta start with where you are. Also, form versus content in general. A bit of Bayesianism,

I think I made this up: In order to get to where you're going, you gotta start with where you are. Also, form versus content in general. A bit of Bayesianism, enough to feel glad when I'm wrong as an opportunity to better update my own understand. And inspired by Claude Shannon's "surprise is information" insight, trying to notice whenever something surprises me as something that gives me valuable information. Helps a lot with debugging problems, where oftentimes a seemingly irrelevant "well that was weird" ends up being the vital clue toward understanding the system.